From edf15aa180d7b98fe16bd3eda42f9dd0e60dee20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Frederick Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:39:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range() Running xfstests generic/013 with kmemleak gives the following: unreferenced object 0xffff8801d3d27de0 (size 96): comm "fsstress", pid 4941, jiffies 4294860168 (age 53.485s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x23/0x40 [] __kmalloc+0xf5/0x1d0 [] ext4_find_extent+0x1ec/0x2f0 [] ext4_insert_range+0x34c/0x4a0 [] ext4_fallocate+0x4e2/0x8b0 [] vfs_fallocate+0x134/0x210 [] SyS_fallocate+0x3f/0x60 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f [] 0xffffffffffffffff Problem seems mitigated by dropping refs and freeing path when there's no path[depth].p_ext Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index d7ccb7f51dfc..7f69347bd5a5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -5734,6 +5734,9 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); goto out_stop; } + } else { + ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); + kfree(path); } ret = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, offset_lblk, -- 2.20.1